Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can lose
dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but
before set_pmd_at().
The patch change pmdp_invalidate() to make the entry non-present atomically and
return previous value of the entry. This value can be used to check if
CPU set dirty/accessed bits under us.
The race window is very small and I haven't seen any reports that can be
attributed to the bug. For this reason, I don't think backporting to
stable trees needed.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 2 +-
mm/pgtable-generic.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index ae83b14200b8..f449c71cbdc0 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static inline pmd_t generic_pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE
-extern void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+extern pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pmd_t *pmdp);
#endif
diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index 1e4ee763c190..cf2af04b34b9 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp)
#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE
-void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pmd_t *pmdp)
{
- pmd_t entry = *pmdp;
- set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(entry));
+ pmd_t old = pmdp_establish(vma, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(*pmdp));
flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+ return old;
}
#endif
--
2.15.0
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